The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| EX-SENATOR SARGENT left an estate valued at
less than $40 O00 one-half to his wife and on e-
half TO his three children.
! THE Indian students at Hampton, Va, will
/ put in old st. Johns Church there fine window
| in memory of Pocahcntas.
PRINCE KUKI, Japanese minister at Washing
ton, has had his children baptized, but has not
! yet himself embraced Christianity.
CAPTAIN CLARK, of the Atlantic City life
| saving station, has rescued nineteen drowning
| persons this season. During the past five years
| he has saved over 100 lives
| Miss GERTRUDE BARRETT the Oldest daugh-
| ter of Lawrence Barrett. the tragedian. will be
| married this fall to Mr.. Joseph Anderson. Mr..
Anderson is at present in England with his
sister.
WHILE the Empress of Austria was at the
| Cromer, this summer, fisherman drowned
there. Hearing of it, she went to his cottage
alone. broke the news tenderly to the widow,
and left purse containing s., 00O
DANIEL DENsLER died Aug. %, at his home
in Batavia, Mich, aged seventy-two. He was
captain of company G. Fourth Michigan Cav
airy, which captured the rebel President, Jeffer-
son Davis, near Abbeville Ga, in April. 1865.
BRITISH captain says that whales are in
creasing in number fast that acc idents to
ships from running into them will be Of
frequent occurrence sailing ship under a
fve-knot breeze might well strike tree as
an old bull whale
EX-SENATOR THURMAN and Henry Watterson
are being advertised as the leading writer's for
the Daily American Workman. which will make
it's appearance in New York about Oct. l. John
Swinton will also do some of his characteristic
work for the paper.
GENERAL BOOTH the leader of the Salvation
Army. is planning an invasion of Zu!uand and
South America by his shouting warriors and
preparatory to the organization of his forces for
this foreign campaign he has issued call for
5000 officers, 10 be trained to 60 abroad mis-
sionaries.
Col. HENRY WALKER, of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery of Boston, who has been
passing some time in London. says that Minis
ter Phelps defects are: Great stiffness of man
ner, general disagreeableness and a seeming
Willingness to in any way oblige Americans by
giving them information when sought for"
COUNT BRAzzA. who is visiting New York, is
good-looking with fine, silky black
beard and of medium height and build. There
is but little in the Counts appearance to sug-
gest the intrepid explorer of Africa. Miss Cora
Slocomb. of New Orleans, 10 whom the Count is
to be married in October. is also in New York.
KATKoFF, the Russian editor, left 700. 600
roubles (about $525, 000to be divided among four
teen heirs. An admirer of the famous Panslavist
has instituted the Russian Academy of Sci
ences a prize of 5000 rubles to be awarded
every five years for the best philosophical
historical essay, and to be named in honor Of
katkof.
FRANCES POWER CoBBE is a woman of untir-
ing industry and energy. During the last
twenty-five years, in addition to the great
amount of time spent in philauthropical work,
she has written fifteen books. about twenty-five
pamphlets on theology. women's rights vivi-
section, etc, and enormous number of articles
for the magazines and newspapers.
AT Danbury. Conn. last Friday at reunion
of veterans appeared Mrs. Tryphena Bevens,
who is one hundred and years old. She
ried teapot with her century old. AS
she entered the diuing-hall whore the veterans